Maintenance Contracts

This blocked gutter brought down ceilings and damaged computers, causing over £20,000 worth of damage.

This blocked outlet damaged internal partitioning and decorations.

Out of sight, out of mind?

Flash storms have recently become more extreme and frequent. Poorly-maintained roofs and blocked gutters or downpipes can cause severe flooding leading to damaged stock, office equipment and other business disruptions.

Prudent building practice would be to include an annual roof inspection to ensure the integrity of the roof is being maintained and may well be a term of your lease or an insurance company requirement.

Letchworth Roofing provides yearly roof maintenance contracts throughout the United Kingdom …using experienced directly-employed teams for roofing reports, repairs of leaks and gutter cleaning. Our Special Works Division has built a fine reputation by providing maintenance services to major national retail and commercial organisations, tailor-made to suit each customer’s needs:

Yearly Maintenance Contracts

Building owners, managers and occupiers have a responsibility to carry out annual or bi-annual maintenance inspections of their buildings, including roofs, gutters and rainwater pipes. Such routine matters can sometimes get overlooked amongst day-to-day business pressures. Roofing guarantees can be compromised if evidence of regular “good housekeeping” cannot be demonstrated.

Health & Safety

Sometimes routine roof and gutter cleaning is left to an “odd job man”, without the necessary skills or equipment to prevent falls. (Many avoidable injuries or deaths occur in roof maintenance.)

Prior to issuing a quotation for an annual contract, our experienced roofing surveyors would:

• Ensure safe access
• Offer the client the option of providing permanent handrails or “Safeline” systems (initially more expensive, but often more cost-effective taken over the building’s life expectancy)
• Assess the proximity of trees and whether overhanging branches can be cut back, before determining the number of visits required
• Assess the extent of initial debris clearance, before a regular maintenance schedule can be adopted.

Annual or bi-annual maintenance contracts would include:

• A visual inspection for signs of degradation of all roof coverings, flashings, upstand details, mastic sealant and mortar pointing
• Removal of all debris from the roof surface, rainwater gutters and outlets
• Checking of rainwater pipes to ensure they are free-flowing
• Removal of severe areas of vegetation growth and advice on the application of suitable moss killers
• Minor repairs will be carried out within our allocated time on site or a quotation will be sent for longer-term recommendations.

Our Special Works Division also provides a rapid-response team to support our Major Works Division on some of the nation’s largest new-build and refurbishment projects.

Call our Helpline on 01462 755755 for more information.

Part of the Letchworth Roofing maintenance crews, fully equipped and ready to go.